Pocket Clearing Core Roughing (Boundary "None")

From HSMWorks 2011 R3, you can choose a machining boundary of "None" for Pocket Clearing.

Choosing "None" as the machining boundary puts the Pocket Clearing strategy in Core Roughing mode, where it starts from outside of the Job Stock instead of ramping down.


Setting Machining Boundary to "None".

The following screen shots shows a comparison of the two modes, as well as an Adaptive Clearing toolpath with comparablesettings.


The example part with the stock shown in yellow.


Traditional Pocket Clearing - Machining Boundary is set to "Bounding Box".


Core Roughing with Pocket Clearing - Machining Boundary set to "None".


Adaptive Clearing.